Ah, to be young and in love. We all remember our first high school romance or that college relationship we thought would last forever. For some celebrities, the dream became a reality, when they married their high school or college sweetheart.
Read on to find out which famous couples started off as classmates!
Jon Bon Jovi & Dorothea Hurley
It may break your heart to learn that Jon Bon Jovi has, in fact, has been married for most of his career.
The suave rocker married his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley in a secret trip during his Jersey Syndicate Tour in 1989.
A Graceland Wedding
The pair wed in a Las Vegas wedding chapel and has been together for almost 30 happy years now. The Graceland Wedding Chapel is the original world famous home of ceremonies with the "King", Elvis Presley.
They have four children together – one daughter and three sons. In an interview with People magazine, Dorothea revealed the secret to their successful marriage - she has spent the last 27 years by his side, watching the concerts. “I usually stand on the side (during his concerts) and watch, the songs all sound great, but then you hear them live!”
Ron & Cheryl Howard
Another famous couple who met on the school campus. The pair got married in their early 20s, and even though they're now both over 60 years old, they're still keeping the flame alive.
"I felt really lucky when we met. It's crazy -- we were teenagers, it shouldn't have worked. We got married young, that shouldn't have worked either, and yet it really and truly has," Howard shared in an interview.
Married With Children
The two have been sharing their life happily for over forty years now, and have created a family.
They have four children - renowned actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard, Jocelyn Carlyle, and son Reed Cross.
Lauren Atkins and Thomas Rhett
Country music star Thomas Rhett and his wife, Lauren, met in the first grade! But for the majority of the time, they remained best friends. They briefly dated at 15 but when that first attempt failed they stayed "best friends", Rhett told Taste of Country.
In their late teens, they each almost got married to other people. But Rhett's future father-in-law intervened, "Her dad called me and said, 'If you don't come over here tonight and tell Lauren how you feel about her, then I'm going to tell her how you feel about her."
After All This Time
The couple got engaged after only 6 months of dating and wed in 2012, at age 22. "When I saw them stare at each other the entire 20 minutes they were saying their vows, it's like these two people are meant to be together," Rhett Akins told The Boot.
The happy couple recently welcomed their first daughter, Willa Gray, adopted from Uganda. Their second daughter and first biological child, Ada James, joined the family in August 2017. Meanwhile, Rhett's new album, Life Changes, is well-received. The most successful song, "Marry Me," is based on his marriage and family. Awww.
Snoop Dogg & Shante Taylor
Snoop Dogg and wife Shante Taylor recently celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary, an impressive milestone for any couple. But being together hasn’t always been an easy ride. Over the past 20 years, the pair have had their share of ups and downs.
Snoop and Shante met in high school, a long time before Snoop's fame. On August 21, 1994, they welcomed their first child, son Cordé. But before the pair had officially settled down they already faced some issues.
Happily Ever After?
Snoop even filed for divorce from Shante on May 21, 2004, due to "irreconcilable differences". But while reflecting on that difficult time in an interview, Shante revealed that her husband “didn’t know” what he actually wanted at the time.
But the rapper promised to himself that would never happen again “God is good… I understand that I need my wife and my kids in my life. So, I threw the papers away,” he said. “I don’t want to get a divorce. So if you hear about a divorce, it’ll be my wife divorcing me; it won’t be me divorcing her.”
Heather Morris and Taylor Hubbell
Heather Morris met her now-husband back in high school, but she only began dating partner, Taylor Hubbell, while he was a college baseball player. Morris moved to LA at the time and Hubbell contacted her on MySpace.
In a 2011 interview, she even said, "I want to marry him so bad. That's what I really care about. I want to marry Taylor and have kids with him. I love acting, but if it affects my relationship, then I won't continue doing it."
You Can Have It All
Well, it seems like Morris' wishes come true. She has two children with hubby Hubbell and has maintained an acting career through it all.
After their first child, Elijah was born in 2013, they decided to become engaged. Two years later, in 2015, they tied the knot, and a year after, son Owen was born.
Tyler Posey & Seana Gorlick
The Teen Wolf star has said of Seana Gorlick “[I knew] since I was 11, I couldn't really put it into words when I was that young but I always had this really strong connection to her.”
The two have been dating since middle school. In 2013, Posey proposed to his childhood sweetheart and the two became engaged.
Too Young To Know After All?
Imagine what your life would look like if you actually got married to your middle school crush! Even though Posey and Gorlick lasted an impressive 10 years together, they split up after a year of engagement.
“Tyler sees that his career is at a certain peak. If he were to settle down in his real life, it would turn into slowing things down in his career,” a source revealed recently to HollywoodLife.com “He knew that getting married would lead to a family and he was at that place at one point but he is now in a completely different space.”
Bono & Ali Hewson
Bono met his wife Ali Hewson at the tender age of 12. The two met at their Dublin high school. Hewson is an activist and businesswoman. She has long been involved in anti-nuclear activism, promotion of fair trade, and children’s rights.
Bono has shared that, surprisingly, “We feel the red carpet has kept us close. If things are going around, we say, ‘Let’s do the red carpet, certainly.' It's just been a great ride, a magic carpet ride.”
No Ordinary Love
The famous Irish couple are still going strong after over 30 years of marriage. They have four kids together and split their time between Ireland, France, and the US.
In a sweet anecdote about his wife, Bono said, "And she just repeated what she's been telling me since we were teenagers, which is, 'Don't look down at me but don't look up at me either. Look across to me. I'm here.'"
Elizabeth Banks & Max Handelman
On her first day at school at the University of Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Banks locked eyes with future hubby Max Handelman.
Banks’ husband, Max Handelman, is a sportswriter and producer from Portland, Oregon.
A UPenn Success Story
Although she technically didn’t complete her conversion to Judaism, her husband’s faith, Banks has said she “[feels] like I'm as Jewish as I'm ever going to be."
Over 15 years later, the couple is still happily married. The couple have two sons, both through a surrogate.
LeBron James & Savannah Brinson
They have been together since high school, and in 2013 they tied the knot. LeBron James and his wife Savannah Brinson started their romance at school and stuck together through James' rise through the NBA.
The pair apparently had their first date at the Outback Steakhouse, where they grabbed a simple dinner. Nowadays, the three-time NBA champion is worth over $275 million.
A Sports Prodigy And His Love
James and Savannah studied at rival high schools in Akron, Ohio, where they grew up. The young basketball and football player was a sports prodigy. She was a softball player and cheerleader.
Over 15 years later, they're still happily married with three kids. Savannah and the kids often attend LeBron's games.
Jeff Daniels & Kathleen Treado
Jeff Daniels has won two Emmy Awards, and several Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild and Tony Award nominations. But perhaps his biggest feat is his long-standing marriage.
Jeff Daniels and Kathleen Treado met at their Michigan high school and were college sweethearts. They have been happily together ever since they got married in 1979.
Family Resemblance
They have three children together, Ben, Lucas, and Nelly.
See the family resemblance in this cute pic? Lucas is now all grown up! These sweet children are in fact already in their 30s.
LL Cool J & Simone Smith
With 23 years of marriage behind them, you could say rapper LL Cool J and his wife, Simone Smith, are marriage veterans.
LL, born James Todd Smith, and Simone were set up by a friend in the early 80s when they were just teenagers.
In Sickness And In Health
The couple got married in 1995 and have four children together. They're even grandparents to a sweet grandson called King-James. In 2004, Simone was diagnosed with a rare type of bone cancer. LL stopped everything to be with her and help her on the road to recovery.
Thankfully, she beat cancer after some difficult years and has been a cancer research activist ever since.
Samuel L. Jackson & LaTanya Richardson
This couple is already celebrating their 40th anniversary! Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson have been lovebirds since they were very young. Jackson credits the success of their marriage their true love and mutual affinity for the show business.
They met while they were in college. Samuel L. Jackson attended Morehouse and LaTanya Richardson was a student at Spelman.
Rules Of Engagement
Richardson and Jackson said "I do" back in 1980 and, two years later, they welcomed a daughter.
When he picked up the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards, the 70-year-old actor paid tribute to LaTanya, 69, and their 34-year-old daughter Zoe. He thanked his loved ones for insisting he go to rehab, after discovering him passed out one day.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Brad Hall
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall celebrated 32 years of marriage this June. Last year, the Veep star honored the special occasion with a throwback pic captioned "31,000 years ago today, I married my current boyfriend."
The two met at Northwestern University in the early 1980s. Hall was producing a college theater production and Louis-Dreyfus came to audition. The rest is history.
Through Thick And Thin
The pair wed in 1987 and have been standing by each other through thick and thin. — As Julia battled breast cancer in 2018, and Hall stuck right by his wife's side.
The couple shares two sons - Henry, 26, and Charlie, 21.
Rainn Wilson & Holiday Reinhorn
Though his on-screen match on 'The Office' is the uptight Angela, Rainn Wilson is married to Holiday Reinhorn in real life.
These college sweethearts met in an acting class at the University of Washington in the mid-'80s. Rainn's haircut in the picture is a giveaway.
Holiday And Rainn
Perhaps the two bonded over what they have in common, which is unusual noun-derived names?
They waited almost 10 years after the wedding before they had their son, Walter.
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan
This is a love story most of us know from the biographical film "The Social Network".
The Facebook co-founder and CEO met his future wife at a Harvard frat party and have been together since 2003.
It All Started At A Frat Party
Priscilla Chan is a pediatrician and philanthropist. She is the daughter of refugees and grew up speaking fluent Cantonese. Her high school classmates called her the "class genius".
The successful pair got married in a surprise wedding ceremony in their Palo Alto backyard in May 2012.
Timothy Olyphant & Alexis Knief
When actor Timothy Olyphant attended the University of Southern California, he met the love of his life, Alexis Knief.
They were already married in 1991, at the age of 23 - straight out of college! While many college relationships dwindle straight after graduation, Olyphant's marriage has been going strong to this day, nearly 30 years later.
For Many Years To Come
The couple lives in Westwood, Los Angeles and have three children together: Grace Katherine (born 1999), Henry (born 2001) and Vivian (born 2003).
Olyphant is a low-key actor, barely ever talking publicly about his personal life or his relationship. But if the longevity of their marriage is any indication, things are simply going well for the two!
Eli Manning & Abby McGrew
Eli Manning is famous for leading the New York Giants to a number of Super Bowl wins. But when he's not out on the field, Manning is a husband and father.
Abby McGrew and Manning met back in their college days at Ole Miss when she was a freshman and he was a junior.
Still Together
McGrew is a philanthropist and has a vibrant fashion career. The pair tied the knot in 2008 at the One & Only Palmilla resort in Los Cabos, Mexico.
They have three daughters together: Ava Frances born in 2011, Lucy Thomas born in 2013, and Caroline Olivia born in 2015.
Eminem & Kim Scott
Now here's a celeb who married his high school sweetheart not once, but twice! Eminem and Kim Scott met in high school, while he was standing on a table with his shirt off rapping LL Cool J's "I'm Bad".
Kim and her twin sister moved in with Eminem when he was 15 as they ran away from home. Kim and Eminem began their on-and-off relationship and had a daughter, Hailie, born in 1995. They married in 1991 and divorced two years later.
Love The Way You Lie?
"I would rather have a baby through my p**** than get married again," promised Eminem in a 2002 Rolling Stones interview. Yet he and Kim remarried for a short while in January 2006.
According to both Eminem and Kim, the two maintain a friendly relationship nowadays. Third time's the charm?
Sarah Palin & Todd Palin
Alaska's former Governor, the colorful Sarah Palin, married her high school sweetheart Todd Palin.
The Republicans couple walked down the aisle in 1988 and have five children together: sons Track CJ (born 1989), Trig Paxson Van (born 2008), and daughters Bristol Sheeran Marie (born 1990), Willow Bianca Faye (born 1994), and Piper Indy Grace (born 2001). Interesting names!
Strong Politics, Strong Marriage
The pair are also proud grandparents to four grandchildren. Their youngest child, Trig, was diagnosed with Down syndrome before he was born.
But despite this challenge and the pressures associated with a political career, the two seem to have a strong and supportive marriage.
Mariano & Clara Rivera
While most of the couples here have been keeping the flame going since their high school or college days, the following pair met in elementary school! Mariano Rivera has been married to his wife, Clara, since 1991.
The pair have three sons together: Mariano III, Jafet, and Jaziel. They all lived in Panama until 2000, before relocating to Westchester County in New York and later to Rye, NY, where they currently reside.
Playing The Field?
In February 2019, allegations that Rivera had a second family arose. A Panamanian woman accused him of failing to support their alleged children financially. She accused him of having a boy (11) and a girl (15) with her out of wedlock and failing to pay child support.
The sportsman dismissed the demands as unfounded and we're still waiting to hear what will happen with the five lawsuits filed against him in his native country. So far, it looks like the couple is unbothered by the claims. Good luck to the Riveras!
Joey Fatone & Kelly Baldwin
Joey Fatone rose to fame as a member of the boyband NSYNC, but we most recently know him from his participation on "Dancing with the Stars".
Fatone married his high school sweetheart, Kelly Baldwin, in 2004 in a ceremony attended by all his bandmates. He and his wife have two daughters, Briahna Joely and Kloey Alexandria.
Bye Bye Bye
Though the couple have been married since 2004, their relationship before that was 10 years long and of the on-and-off type.
Earlier this month, Fatone filed divorce from his wife and even showed up with girlfriend Izabel Araujo to a red carpet event. He's apparently been dating Araujo for the past four years. Bye, Bye, Bye Kelly!
Robin Thicke & Paula Patton
Apparently, American singer-songwriter Robin Thicke ruled the dancefloor of an LA teen night club when he was in high school. That’s where he met his future wife, Paula Patton, back in 1993.
Twelve years after meeting in high school, the couple walked down the aisle and in 2010, they welcomed a son. Patton is an actress famous for her roles in Hitch and Precious.
A Troublesome Split
But the long-term pair didn’t remain happy for long. In 2014, ugly divorce proceedings began. Patton accused Thicke of domestic violence, infidelity, and substance abuse.
They were together for over 21 years and married for almost nine before filing for divorce due to irreconcilable differences.
Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra
Fans have been following this couple's journey since MTV's "16 & Pregnant" and "Teen Mom OG". Being teen parents is never easy, and they have had their share of ups and downs. But despite it all, they've lasted a remarkable 14 years together, impressive considering their intense circumstances.
The couple have withstood teenage pregnancy, giving up a child for abortion, subsequent pregnancies, the birth of three children, engagement, marriage, a miscarriage, divorce rumors, another baby, and most recently (as of June 2019), Catelynn said she and Tyler should split up for good.
Rollercoaster Relationship
So almost 15 years since we first met them on Teen Mom, the couple is still together and are the parents of two girls, Novaleee Reign and Vaeda Luma.
But it seems the couple is heading towards a divorce, nowadays. They split up temporarily a few months ago but Catelynn seems content with the idea of moving on. She said, "I think it was good for me, looking back at it now, realizing if he ends up wanting to divorce me, I guess, whatever. I'll be sad but I don't f—king need you. I can do this on my own."
Lindsay Arnold and Samuel Cusick
Lindsay Arnold is a fan favorite on So You Think You Can Dance. But besides performing in the spotlight, the Latin and Ballroom dancer also works as a choreographer for Dancing with the Stars.
Arnold married her high school sweetheart, Samuel Cusick, on June 18, 2015, in a private ceremony of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Fellow Dancing with the Stars dancers were among her bridesmaids.
Happily Ever After
"It was a beautiful wedding and to see Lindsay and Sam so in love is what we should all be so lucky to feel," the dancer's rep tells us.
Lindsay took to Instagram ahead of the wedding express her excitement, captioning a sweet pic with her now hubby "Perfect day."
Taylor and Natalie Hanson
Pop musician Taylor Hanson met his wife back when they were in college age. Though they didn't technically meet in college, the two are certainly young sweethearts who still stand by each other's side.
The artist is best known as a member of the pop-rock band Hanson and is also the lead singer of supergroup Tinted Windows.
Full House
Hanson is the second of seven children, so perhaps it isn't such a surprise that he himself chose to build a big happy family.
Taylor Hanson and wife Natalie recently welcomed a new baby boy called Claude Indiana Emmanuel. The boy joins daughters joins Taylor Hanson and wife Natalie's daughters Wilhelmina, 6, and Penny, 13, as well as sons Viggo, 10, River, 12, and Ezra, 16.